10.
RYBOLOVLEV ESTATE- $95 MILLION
This
house is the most expensive single family home in the country and, since it was
owned by Donald Trump, it’s obviously the most expensive home ever fought over
in a divorce case. The 33,000 square foot oceanfront mansion has become a key
part of the proceeding since Trump’s ex –wife Elena RYBOLOVLEV demanded
Jurisdiction due to infidelity. This home has 18 bedrooms 22 bathrooms, and
retails for $95 million, making it the most expensive single-family house in
the nation…weird, we’re pretty sure we found nine more for this list.
Originally on sale for $125 million, it ended up being haggled down to a mere
95. We guess the economy is hurting everyone these days.
9. SALICON
VALLEY MANSION-$100 MILLION
As the most expensive single-family home in the US, this
house… wait, didn’t we just sat that the RYBOLOVLEV was the most expensive
single-family house ever? Well, okay, this one went for 100 million so I guess
it wins. With 5 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms, and an indoor and outdoor pool (in
case it rains, we guess), it’s all-in-all a pretty fancy house.
8. FLEUR DE LYS- 125 MILLION
Despite being marketed as the world’s most expensive house,
the fleur De Lys somehow only falls on number 8 on our list. Wow, that’s weird,
huh? It’s almost like people on the Internet are wrong. Fleur De Lys has 41,000
square feet and 15 bedrooms, but apparently no bathrooms, which we think is a
huge oversight either by the architect or the person writing the articles we’re
using as sources.
7. THE MANOR- $150 MILLION
Here we are, finally, the most expensive residential real
estate listing in the US, according to Wiki-freakin’-pedia. $150 million. Feels
pretty good to put that part to rest, doesn’t it? Thanks, Aaron Spelling, for
having the (7
th) most expensive house in the world. This house
features 56,000 square feet, 123 rooms, a bowling alley, an ice rink and
allegedly an entire wing devoted to Spelling’s wife’s wardrobe.
6. THE PINNACLE-$155 MILLION
Owned by TIM BLIXSETH, in Montana, this house in unique for
two reason: it has a private chair lift directly from the house to a nearby
ski-resort (which BLIXSETH owns), and is the only house on this list so far
named that doesn’t claim to be the most expensive in the world. Also, we’re
gonna call it right now: best back yard. Because it’s a ski resort.
5. FRANCHUK VILLA - $161 MILLION
The five-story, freestanding 10-bedroom Victorian villa also
features an underground indoor swimming pool, panic room, and private movie
theatre. It’s also the world’s most expensive home (yeah, sure it is), at $161
million. How fancy is this place? Allegedly, during some remodeling, the noise
made the Mayor of Moscow angry. The house is located inLondon. That’s right:
the house is so fancy it doesn’t make sense.
4. THE HEARST MANSION - $165 MILLION
Top Three Facts about the Fourth Most Expensive House in the
World: it was used in The Godfather, JFK spent his honeymoon there, and (holy
crap, get this): it’s the most expensive home in the US! It features three
swimming pools, 29 bedrooms (you have to supply your own horse heads har har
har), movie theater and, for some reason a disco.
3. FAIRFIELD POND - $198 MILLION
Currently valued that way due to its property taxes, this
66,000 square-foot main house has a basketball court, bowling alley, and a
$150,000 hot tub. The most valuable home in the US (again, according to
Wikipedia).
2. VILLA LEOPOLDA -$736 MILLION
Wow, that’s a big jump in price. Built by King Leopold ll of
Belgium in 1902 and located on the French Riviera, this home was purchased by
Russian billionaire Prokhorov, who is so rich he lost billions to the latest
economic collapse and still had enough fun money to buy himself a
three-quarter-billion-dollar summer home. It has 27 stories, 19 bedrooms, and a
rumored 50 full-time gardeners.
1. ANTILLA
-$1,000,000,000
This is it. The one you’ve been waiting for. The grand
finale. The one billion dollar home. We give you…ANTILLA, the actual most
expensive house in the world… finally. Located in Mumbai, ANTILLA challenges
pretty much everything you’d expect about “what is possible in a home “and”
what is possible for architecture,” The 27-story house features six floors of
parking, a health level with a Jacuzzi gym, and “ice room, a ballroom level
(for dancing?) several floors of bedrooms and bathroom and even a four- story
garden – because, yeah we guess that’s possible. The architecture is based on
an Indian tradition called VASTU SHASTRA, which is supposed to be conducive to
the movement of positive energy. In keeping with this, each floor has not only
a unique design, but an entirely unique set of materials and aesthetic
design-meaning each room is meant to look like it’s from a different house.
Basically, this house has everything – things you can imagine, things you can’t
imagine, and things you never thought to imagine but are now imagining because
they sound like the great things thing you’ve ever heard of.
